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    Emma
 
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    | The numerical record of a sporting event, it comes from the Old Norse for 20 & also means 20 | 
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    | Plato was a teacher of this Greek philosopher & scientist who also became a colleague | 
    Aristotle
 
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    Bridget Jones
 
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    James Bailey: The circus, merging with this impresario's "Greatest Show On Earth" in 1881 | 
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    | Queen Wilhelmina | 
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    | This ballroom dance gets its name from the Spanish for "revelry", not from a liquor | 
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    | "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time", he points out to a police inspector, is that the dog did nothing | 
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    | Kay Bailey Hutchison: being the first woman to represent this state in the U.S. Senate | 
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    An empire: Sultan Abdulhamid II | 
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    | One of May's birthstones, it's named for Sicily's Achates River, where it was mined in antiquity | 
    (Michael: What is topaz?) ... (Alex: [*], Achates, yes.)
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    | Derived from the Latin for "high", it's an adjective meaning proud & scornful | 
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    | Plato's unfinished "Critias" was to detail the ancient war between Athens & this fabled island | 
    Atlantis
 
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    (Alex: And that famous attorney is [*].)
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    | The finest variety of this purple quartz gemstone comes from mines in Uruguay | 
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    | From the Greek for "pleasure", it's the term for an unbridled pursuit of it | 
    (Joan: What is licentiousness?) (Michael: What is debauchery?)
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    | In 529 A.D. almost 1,000 years after it was created by Plato, this school was closed by Justinian I | 
    (Michael: What is the Lyceum?)
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    David Bailey, the inspiration for Antonioni's "Blow-up": this field for British Vogue | 
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    | Wilhelm II, German Kaiser & king of this former state | 
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    | The red spots of Jasper give this  mineral its name | 
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    | The name of this sudden, overwhelming terror or fear comes from the Greek god thought to cause it | 
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    | This work is about an ideal city where justice is complete & imitative poets are exiled | 
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